Chapter 84 Oscar Wilde's Art of Lying

Oscar Wilde's Art of Lying Andre Gide wrote a short memoir of Oscar Wilde.This booklet is not only The kindest and most intelligible of Wilde's words, and also the beautiful and readable works written by Gide himself in his early years one of the products.He first met Wilde in 1891.The day that swept the UK at that time Talented writer, reputation is at its peak.After Oscar Wilde came to Paris, the literary and social circles in Paris were full of enthusiasm. Legend has it that this great English genius from London, how he smoked golden-headed cigarettes, holding sunflowers for a walk on the street.At this time, Gide asked a friend to introduce him to Wilde, and the two have been in love ever since.

Great friendship happened.Later, Wilde was charged with imprisonment. After he was released from prison, many old friends stayed away. Gide was one of the few confidants who kept in touch with him all the time.His pamphlet was published in nineteenth Year 10, ten years since Judd's death, is full of stories from the genius who pretended to know the art of conversation best. The pearls and jade speeches left by talented writers.Gide once mentioned a little story told by Wilde, which is Stories about an art world that exists only in the imagination: "There is a man who is loved by the whole village because he is good at telling stories. Every morning, he leaves

When they leave the village to work, and when they return at night, the workers of the whole village, after a whole day's labor, gather around Look at him and say to him: "Come on, tell us, what did you see today?" ’ he would say thus, 'I saw a little fairy playing the reed flute in the woods, and a group of fairy in the forest danced around him in response to the music. dance. ''What else?What else did you see? ' said the men. 'When I go to the beach At that time, I saw three mermaids, they floated in the waves, combing their green hair with golden combs

hair. ’ So those people liked him very much, because he told them stories.” “In this way, there are One morning, as every morning, he left the village--but when he came to the sea, Behold, he did see three mermaids by the sea, combing their green hair there with golden combs. hair.As he walked on, approaching the woods, a fairy was facing a group of people around him. The fairy plays the reed flute.This evening, when he returned to the village, as usual, everyone asked him: 'Come, Tell us, what did you see today? ’ He replied: ‘I haven’t seen anything today. '" Gide recalled that when Wilde told this story, he paused here so that Gide could

Enough time to get the story going, and then go on to say this: "I don't like your lips, they are too blunt, like those who never lie the average.I want to teach you how to lie so your lips can be beautiful, curvy Twisted like those quaint masks. " Connecting talking, lying and art is the cynical philosophy advocated by Oscar Wilde, However, he finally got into trouble because of it.He has a collection of critical essays, bluntly titled The Art of Lying. Technique".